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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 474,647, dated May 10, 18 92.

Application filed October 22, 1891. Serial No. 409,517. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATHEW SOHMID, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Buildings, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to so construct a corner building in which the first story is used for store purposes and in which the entrance to the store is at the corner that the second story shall project over the doorway in such a manner as to dispense with the usual supportingcolumn at the corner, and thus allow uninterrupted passage through the doorway. This object I attain in the following manner, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a building illustrating my improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan View of a portion of the first floor. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a portion of the second floor. Fig. at is a section on the line 1 2, Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is a section on the line 3 4, Fig. 1.

A is the first floor of the building; B, the second floor. a is the party-wall, b the side wall, and d the front wall.

E is the frontbulk-window, andf is the side bulk-window.

D is the doorway into the store. On each side of this doorway are columns E E, which are mounted on a foundation and extend up to and support the beams of the second floor.

Directly above the doorway D in the present instance is a hay-window I, which proj sets from the corner of the building, as shown in Fig. 3, and overhangs the doorway. In buildings using a corner doorway the corner above the doorway is supported by a central column, (shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2,) the column being directly in the passage-way. The object of my invention is to dispense with the central column, so that an uninterrupted passage may be had into and out of the building. This object I attain byproviding the two columns E E, one on each side of the doorway, the columns being of sufficient strength to support the overhanging structure. Each column E supports a girder F.

The girders extend in the present instance from the walls of the building, meeting each other at the corner f. These girders support the joists, which are arranged as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the weight of the material 011 the girders back of the columns supporting the overhanging material. Iam thus enabled by this construction to build out the second story to the corner without the use of a central supporting-column, and I can build out a bay-window structure at the corner and support it only by the side columns, as clearly shown in the drawings. The column I prefer to use is a deep-channel column of metal, as shown clearly in Fig. 5, so arranged in respect to the doorway and windows that the framings can be readily fastened thereto. Secured in the trough of the column I is a Wooden beam M, and secured to the beam is the door-framing m. The window-framing N is out to fit the column and secured to the doorframing by a covered piece 91. I preferably case the column by panels 5 5' the panels being secured to the beam M by screw 2?, passing through openings in the column. This fastening of the panel also secures the beam M in place in the column. This construction entirely hides the column from view. If the structure is not provided with bulkwvindows that extend to the doorway, as shown in the drawings, then the columns maybe the walls of the building, the beams Fin such an instance extending into the walls a sufficient distance to counterbalance the overhanging weight; but I prefer when practicable to use the columns E E.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, in a corner-store-b uild' ing structure having a doorway at the corner and show-windows on one or both sides, of columns on each side of the doorway and girders supported by said columns, said girders supporting the upper structure, with an overhanging corner extending out beyond the doorway and supported by the columns through the girders, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a corner-building structure having a doorway atthe corner and an overhanging corner bay-window above the doorway, of columns on each side of the doorway, girders supported by thecolumns, and said girders supporting the projecting corner bay-window, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, in a corner building having a corner doorway and a bulk window I In testimony whereof I have signed my or windows, of a hollow channel-column at name to this specification in the presence of each side of said doorway, timbers in said 001- two subscribing witnesses.

umns, casings surrounding the columns and MATHEW SCHMID. secured to the timbers, and the door-casing \Vitnesses: and window-casing also secured to the tim- HENRY HOWSON, ber, substantially as described. \VILLIAM D. CONNER. 

